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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780425199862
ISBN number: 042519986X
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 02, 2005
Publishing house: Berkley
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Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a 'Ghost Crawl' through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead--and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her own investigation, and gets into hot water up to her neck.
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I really enjoy Laura Child's writing style. Enough detail to paint the scene but no overkill. Like the settings. Mysteries are believable and keep you guessing. A quick read and enjoyable. Prefer her tea novels to the scrapbooking novels.
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This is not my very first Laura Childs Tea Shop Mystery, although this is the very first I have reviewed. I read the others years ago before I started reviewing on Amazon.
I find this particular one to be just as charming as the others. I cannot say the mystery was a big draw for me, but like other reviewers the tea information is wonderful. I also find the descriptions of the town to be lovely. It makes you want to take weekend getaway there, and visit Theodosia's tea shop.
One of my favorite characters is Drayton. I just find him so proper and old fashion that I hang on to his every word. I really love the old world, proper attitude that Laura Childs gives him. Some may find him stuffy, but to me he is definitely charming like the rest of the story.
Like I mentioned above I totally agree with some of the other reviewers who have remarked that the mystery could be taken out and the story would have been just as great with the descriptions, characters, and tea facts. I think this is the main reason why I read the books. I have never been a big mystery fan until I found the cozy mysteries anyway.
I recommend this highly for fans of the art of tea, and those who love the cozy, charming life.
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Laura Childs has certainly found a niche with her Tea Shop Mystery series. For fans of both mystery and tea alike can find something to enjoy in these fast-paced easy reads. Yet Childs and her amateur sleuth don't seem to be making many improvements as the series continues down its predictable path.
"The Jasmine Moon Murder", the fifth in the series, finds the amateur detective Theodosia Browning dealing with a murder that hits very close to home - the uncle of her boyfriend, Jory Davis. When Jory's uncle collapses at a local fundraising event, Theodosia finds a synringe on the ground nearby and knows that his death was not accidental. And although Theo promises the now familiar detective Burt Tidwell that she will keep her distance from the crime, she can't help but investigate when Jory asks her for help. And just like always, Theodosia's sleuthing winds up with her getting a little too close to the truth and making herself a target for the killer at large.
The Tea Shop Mystery series is a unique series, and it seems a shame that the recipes and information about tea are almost more entertaining than the mystery at hand. Childs will certainly never win any awards for writing, as she refuses to believe that her audience is as intelligent as she believes her own creation to be. Her writing is strewn with repeated descriptions mere pages apart and similes that land as softly as an atom bomb, (not to mention that this particular edition had an awful lot of typos in it). All in all, taking the bad with the good, these mysteries are a pleasant and thirst-inducing escape from reality.
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Larua Childs is becoming one of my favorite authors. Jasmine Moon Murder was well written with tidbits about tea and tea shops inserted well. There is a surprise ending but book has a great finish!
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I enjoy the cozy atmosphere of the tea shop, and it is abundant here. This book isn't quite as good as the last because the motive of the murderer is a little lame. I'm not sure someone willing to commit murder wouldn't think things out a bit more to make sure they were murdering the right person. The second murder was even more "unthought out" - circumstantial evidence of such a thin nature being the reason to get a gun and shoot to kill? I don't think so. One last complaint about the heroine's relationship with her boyfriend - could it be any less passionate? Yikes! Tidwell the policeman seems to like Theo more! The warmth of the book is definitely in the tea shop and with Theo's tea shop family - and not with her romantic relationship! That all being said, it still is fun to read to be part of the cozy family.
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